Idsa News Review On China Koreas Mongolia

Author : Shakti Madhok
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Sino-Mongolian Relations, 1949-2004 written by Shakti Madhok and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relations between two sovereign and neighbourly states is always a ticklish problem, Mongolia a country landlocked between China on the one side and Russia on the other had a hoary and belligerant past. In thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it ruled over almost one - third of the civilized world including China. Mongolia's relationship with China had a chequered history and in fact it always needed an extraordinary efforts on the part of Mongolia to maintain correctâ if not cordial ties wirh China. (Excerpts from the book). China being a civilizational state has had a foreign affairs agenda of its own. At times it was tune in with the rest of the Socialist bloc but most of the time it followed an independent line. Political dominance of the Soviet Union over Mongolia was not acceptable to China which had exercised suzerain rights over Mongolia for more than a century. The situation became worse after the Sino- Soviet schism and Mongolia toeing the Soviet line. Mongolia tried to play China against the Soviet Union and vice-versa to meet its security requirements and overcome its economic under-development and above all to maintain its distinct identity in the comity of nations. Traditionally being a center of both Pan - Buddhist and Pan - Mongol movements, it tried to maintain cutural togetherness with both the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China and the Buryat Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. In the post-Mao period, the Sino-Soviet schism was perceived as a Maoist fallacy and earnest attempts were made by the post-Mao genre of Chinese leaders to free foreign policy from Maoist agenda. This coupled with openness in the Soviet Union resulted in normalization of Sino-Soviet relations. How this contributed to normalization of relations between China and Mongolia and the subsequent emergence of Mongolia as a democratic state is brought out at length in this study. The last chapter also throws light on what can be the future prospects for relations between two neighbours China and Mongolia. "